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• You say TESOL and I say TESL, or TEFL, or… Is the English language teaching world a community with identity issues? – Jason Anderson – Teacher, trainer and writer

  When he finally cuts to the chase, Anderson posits, "[T]he superordinate category should not be ‘TESOL’, and definitely not ‘TEFL’, but ‘TEAL’ – Teaching English as an Additional Language," which is exactly what I was thinking when I started reading his post.

  tags: additional languages communication education English English teaching language acquisition language development language education language learning learning TEAL TEFL TESL TESOL languages languaging

• Michael Matsuda - Education Week Leaders To Learn From

  • He never learned his parent’s native language of Japanese, and they never encouraged him to do so. To his chagrin, he didn’t learn Spanish, either. He wants to ensure that students in his district don’t lose part of their cultural heritage as he did.

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